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Autore |
Perkins Margo V |
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Titolo |
Autobiography as activism [[electronic resource] ] : three Black women of the Sixties / / Margo V. Perkins |
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Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2000 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-45519-6 |
9786613455192 |
1-60473-735-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (182 p.) |
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Collana |
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Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies Visionary women writers of Chicago's Black Arts Movement |
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Soggetti |
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American prose literature - African American authors - History and criticism |
African American women political activists - Biography - History and criticism |
American prose literature - Women authors - History and criticism |
Women and literature - United States - History - 20th century |
African American women - Intellectual life - 20th century |
African Americans - Biography - History and criticism |
Autobiography - African American authors |
African American women in literature |
Autobiography - Women authors |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Based on the author's thesis (Cornell University). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 ""I am We"": Black Women Activists Writing Autobiography; Chapter 2 Literary Antecedents in the Struggle for Freedom; Chapter 3 On Becoming: Activists' Reflections on Their Formative Experiences; Chapter 4 Autobiography as Political/Personal Intervention; Chapter 5 Gender and Power Dynamics in 1960's Black Nationalist Struggle; Chapter 6 Reading Intertextually: Black Power Narratives Then and Now; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index; |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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A study of three Black Power narratives as instruments for radical social change Angela Davis, Assata Shakur (a.k.a. JoAnne Chesimard), and |
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